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page 12000s sailing yachts
Bayesian
sailing superyacht
USA 17
racing trimaran to challenge for the 2010 America's Cup
Hydroptère
Hydroptère is a French experimental sailing hydrofoil trimaran imagined by the yachtman Éric Tabarly. The Hydroptère project was managed by Alain Thébault, the design done by naval architects VPLP design and the manufacturing by a group of French high-tech companies. Its multihull hydrofoil design allows the sail-powered vessel to reach high speeds on water. The design is based on experience from a range of hydrofoil sailcraft that Thébault built in cooperation with Éric Tabarly since the 1980s. On 5 October 2008 she reached a record speed of , however this was over a shorter distance than the
Mirabella V
ship built in 2003
NZL 82
International America's Cup Class racing yacht, raced by defenders Team New Zealand (TNZ) in the 2003 America's Cup